Re: [PATCH 2.6.2] Documentation/SubmittingPatches

[Tim Bird]

> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:45:09 -0800 jw schultz <jw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It would be _great_ if the Documentation was more accurate to the
> taste of developers/maintainers...

> | > --- linux-2.6.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.orig    2004-02-04 22:57:55.818563016 -0800
> | > +++ linux-2.6.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2004-02-04 23:01:28.799185040 -0800
> | > @@ -33,13 +33,15 @@

I thought the preferred method was:

--- linux-2.6.2.orig/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ linux-2.6.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

In other words, I always thought you should have a whole parallel
original tree.  This more nicely captures multi-file changes, IMHO, and
I've seen this a great deal.

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Co-Chair
CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer
Sony Electronics
E-mail: Tim.Bird@xxxxxxxxxxx
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